On Thursday, October 17, the Board of Management for Cricket in India (BCCI) introduced the sturdy 16-member squad of the India Ladies’s Nationwide Cricket Staff for the upcoming One Day Worldwide (ODI) collection towards the New Zealand Ladies’s Nationwide Cricket Staff.
The squad introduced by the BCCI for the matches towards the White Ferns is alongside the anticipated traces. Nonetheless, there have been three main adjustments to the India Ladies’s Nationwide Cricket Staff.
Richa Ghosh Out Of New Zealand ODIs Due To twelfth Board Exams
Harmanpreet Kaur, whose captaincy has come below fireplace in current instances, will proceed to guide the aspect within the matches towards New Zealand with the star batter Smriti Mandhana serving as her deputy.
The star gamers Deepti Sharma, Jemimah Rodrigues, and Shreyanka Patil are current within the squad whereas Yastika Bhatia and Uma Chetry are two wicket-keeping choices.
India’s star wicketkeeper-batter Richa Ghosh has not been included within the ODI squad as a result of she made herself unavailable for choice. The 21-year-old is unavailable for nationwide responsibility as a result of she is specializing in her research and can seem for her twelfth customary board exams when India Ladies’s tackle New Zealand Ladies’s.
Asha Sobhana and Pooja Vastrakar can even miss the collection towards the White Ferns. Pooja has been given a much-needed relaxation, whereas Sobhana has been dominated out of the collection with an damage.
Asha Sobhana had bought injured forward of the essential match of the ICC Ladies’s T20 World Cup 2024 towards Australia Ladies’s Nationwide Cricket Staff on the Sharjah Cricket Stadium on Sunday, October 13. She was initially picked within the India XI however she suffered a knee damage on the sidelines of the toss and bought dominated out of the match.
“Ms. Richa Ghosh was unavailable for choice resulting from her twelfth customary board exams. Ms. Asha Sobhana is at present nursing an damage and was unavailable for choice. Ms. Pooja Vastrakar has been rested for the collection,” the Board of Management for Cricket in India (BCCI) said.
India Ladies’s squad for 3 ODIs towards New Zealand:
Harmanpreet Kaur (C), Smriti Mandhana (VC), Shafali Verma, D Hemalatha, Deepti Sharma, Jemimah Rodrigues, Yastika Bhatia (wk), Uma Chetry (wk), Sayali Satgare, Arundhati Reddy, Renuka Singh Thakur, Tejal Hasabnis, Saima Thakor, Priya Mishra, Radha Yadav, Shreyanka Patil.
India Ladies’s Had been Extraordinarily Poor In T20 World Cup 2024
The Harmanpreet Kaur-led India Ladies’s Nationwide Cricket Staff delivered a poor efficiency within the ICC Ladies’s T20 World Cup 2024 and crashed out of the group stage itself.
Heading into the competitors, India Ladies’s had momentum on their aspect as they beat West Indies and South Africa fairly comfortably within the warm-up matches. Nonetheless, they weren’t in a position to replicate that efficiency in the primary match.
India opened their marketing campaign with a 58-run loss to New Zealand Ladies’s, earlier than profitable by 6 wickets and 82 runs towards Pakistan Ladies’s and Sri Lanka Ladies’s. The Ladies In Blue then misplaced to Australia Ladies’s by 9 runs and finally bought eradicated from the match.
Coming again to the New Zealand Ladies’s tour of India 2024, the matches are set to be held on October 24, 27, and 29 on the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad.
